You mean you use a mattress/sleeping pad ?? Your dad has you spoiled. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />

I'm a young guy (20), I know many girls who feel the same way as you about the wilderness. In my opinion you need to stop comparing the bush to civilization, but instead compare civilization to the bush.

I was a city boy, born and raised till I was 10, I moved out of the city and kept on comparing the country to the city, so I always wanted to move back to the city, a handful of years later I did move back. But you know, I stopped comparing the country to the city, but started to compare the city to the country, and I moved out of the city, and I'll never move back the big city. .... Its all a matter of perspective. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Get your dad to make up 2 packs, one for you and one for him, and go out into the bush for the weekend, Start Early Saturday and be back home by Sunday evening so it wont be a long trip. Forget about civilization the moment you step out of the car for your little trip. Nothing exists other then the bush at that point in the world.

If your dad is good at using a map and compass, get a map of the area, and make yourselves a new trail, not a marked trail to go through, make up points based on the map and possibly Google Earth of what you'd like to see, to give you direction to this "aimless" walking your talking about.

Entertainment in the bush? Well thats why you learn field craft. Learn to start camp fires, how to construct shelters in the bush using whats around you to do it, learn to set snares (if legal), learn to gather useful items in the bush, or get yourself a calapsable fishing rod and make it dinner for Sunday to give you incentive to catch fish.

Dimitri